From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 14 21:52:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA17175 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 21:52:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flare.dynip.com (mptc1-cas-15.dial.midplains.net [156.46.17.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA17159 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 21:52:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from averix@flare.dynip.com) Received: from localhost (averix@localhost) by flare.dynip.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA17882; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 23:57:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from averix@flare.dynip.com) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 23:57:22 -0600 (CST) From: Jordan Blanchard To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Chris D." Subject: Re: looking for a NNTP Server program In-Reply-To: <19980315152143.25555@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok Thanks.. Another quick question.. the system I'm on only has a 33.6 connection to the internet at the moment, is that enough bandwidth to run a news server ok, and if yes, were can I get one that will run on a freeBSD system? On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sat, 14 March 1998 at 20:58:41 -0600, averix@flare.dynip.com wrote: > > Hello.. I was wondering if someone could email me with the where abouts of > > a good nntp server program would be, or a nntp server that has public > > read/write access would be?? > > Take a look in /usr/ports: > > $ cd /usr/ports > $ make search key=nntp > Port: dnews-4.5i > Path: /usr/ports/news/dnews > Info: commercial nntp server with feature and speed enhancements over inn and cnews > Maint: andreas@FreeBSD.ORG > Index: news > B-deps: > R-deps: > > Port: knews-0.9.8 > Path: /usr/ports/news/knews > Info: A threaded nntp newsreader for X. > Maint: andreas@FreeBSD.ORG > Index: x11 news > B-deps: xpm-3.4j > R-deps: xpm-3.4j > > Port: newsfetch-1.0 > Path: /usr/ports/news/newsfetch > Info: download news articles from NNTP server. > Maint: itojun@itojun.org > Index: news > B-deps: > R-deps: > > Port: nntp-1.5.11.5 > Path: /usr/ports/news/nntp > Info: NNTP with NOV support. > Maint: adam@veda.is > Index: news > B-deps: cnews-cr.g > R-deps: > > Port: nntpbtr-1.7 > Path: /usr/ports/news/nntpbtr > Info: NNTP bulk transfer > Maint: dk@farm.org > Index: news > B-deps: > R-deps: > > Port: nntpcache-2.3.2 > Path: /usr/ports/news/nntpcache > Info: News caching/anti-spam/server-merging system. > Maint: nntpcache@nntpcache.org > Index: news > B-deps: gmake-3.76.1 pgp-2.6.2 rsaref-2.0 unzip-5.3.2 > R-deps: > > Port: slurp-1.10 > Path: /usr/ports/news/slurp > Info: A passive NNTP client that retrieves Usenet news articles from a remote server. > Maint: jraynard@FreeBSD.ORG > Index: news > B-deps: > R-deps: > > Port: suck-3.9.1 > Path: /usr/ports/news/suck > Info: Receives/sends news to/from localhost via NNTP. > Maint: jseger@FreeBSD.org > Index: news > B-deps: gmake-3.76.1 > R-deps: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Death is a part of us all" "because sometimes love is stronger than death" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jordan Blanchard Hack and Slash Web Design averix@flare.dynip.com ICQ: 9245835 Http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Boardwalk/1172 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message